Afterwards, you should be able to browser to your plugins folder, which should be located in "/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox/plugins". However, to access it, you must Ctrl-Click the Firefox folder and select "Show Package Contents".
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On Mac OS X, your Firefox folder is usually in your Applications directory. It will be under a "plugins" folder in your Firefox installation directory (for reference, the default directory for a Windows Firefox installer is "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins"). Now locate where Firefox is currently storing your plugins. It should have "Profiles" folder directly underneath it if you do find a "profiles" folder, but it is a "./defaults/profiles" folder, then that is your installation directory and you will have to search further. If Mozilla is installed, make sure that this is not the actual Mozilla installation directory. Create a folder in "./Mozilla" named "Plugins" so that now there is a "C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Mozilla\Plugins\" folder. Now there should be a path that resembles "./Mozilla/Profiles" (where "." is the actual path where "/Mozilla/Profiles" exists).
If this folder does not already exist, create it. To trick Firefox into searching your folder, locate where the Mozilla profile container folder should be (for example, "C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\"). This search is done even if you have no legitimate Mozilla profile. One of these locations is in a "Plugins" folder a parent folder of your Mozilla profile, if one exists.
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Fortunately, the plugins in your "plugins" folder may be moved elsewere so that they don't reside under your installation directory and so to make your manual uninstalling of Firefox easier.įirefox searches a few locations for plugins such as Macromedia Flash and Java. However, it removes your plugins in your "plugins" folder each time, unless you're careful. When not installing Firefox from an installer, removing the Firefox installation directory and then extracting, instead of overwriting the Firefox folder, is a good idea. This article may be also be applied to users that use Firefox installers it is unsure if the Mozilla Firefox uninstaller that is provided with the installer preserves your plugins directory.
Don't be put off by the fact that different sections were written by different authors using different browsers. This article applies equally to Firefox and SeaMonkey, and even to any browser using NPAPI plugins, which means practically anything except Internet Explorer.